L.D. Goffigan > Quotes

“It’s a Caesar cipher,” she said. Named after Julius Caesar, who used it to conceal his messages, a Caesar cipher was a relatively simple substitution cipher.”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Cleopatra Cipher

“I had come to learn that grief was an emotion without end, marked by continual waves of loss and despair that ebbed and flowed for years, like the ocean tides.”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Beast of London

“Something that frustrated Sebastian, as I’m sure you’re aware, Adrian, is how Cleopatra’s intelligence is still to this day underestimated for this notion of her being this famed seductress.”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Cleopatra Cipher

“Yet as dazzling as the jewels were, they were merely a piece of a larger puzzle, a crucial piece of a secret theory he’d long held. It was a theory that he’d shared with only two people. He didn’t want to believe that one of them had betrayed him, but how else would his abductor have known to take him?”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Cleopatra Cipher

“The stunning beauty of the waning day was a stark contrast to the horrors we'd just witnessed, as if nature itself wanted to wipe away the memory of those monstrosities.”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Beast of London

“I would urge you to focus on the light in the darkness, on the one thing that makes humanity worth fighting for: love.”
― L.D. Goffigan, Realm of Night

“It's the sum of our actions which define us. Not single ones.”
― L.D. Goffigan, Realm of Night

“But what the Cairo office didn’t seem to realize was that if what Sebastian had told him was true, this Yara and her cronies would unleash a series of terrorist attacks, using Cleopatra’s treasure as their financial backing.”
― L.D. Goffigan, The Cleopatra Cipher